Have any of u guys dealt with tibia inflamation? Ive never had an injury before and felt my left knee slowly get worse overtime doing crossfit and some heavy lifting up to the point where i had to stop squatting. Stayed two months off gained some weight and still not 100% although its a ton better. The doc i went said two weeks should be enough but was def off by a lot.

bl dude can't always be the best but you're among them nonetheless : )im having a junk-ass fortnight while i work too many workshifts for me , then moving house to live with a 'clean' friend for ~4 week "rehab" , so expect a month of great things shortly, (then im going to japan) :3

How far down do you guys go on the Romanian? I'm doing 4x10 so the weight isn't very heavy. I can pretty much touch my toes with that amount of weight. Does that mean I should increase the weight or just stop a few inches below my knees? Or just keep going down as far as I can?

Either I'm really shitty at jerks and all the spectators lied to me to make me feel better, or I got fucked.

This means you got the weight above your head locked out but it wasn't counted?

I.E. the issue was one of the judges red lighting you or however it's termed in weightlifting?

You have to go straight to lockout (can't get it most of the way there and then extend elbows) and the elbows are not allowed to re-bend after you've locked it out. There's a left/middle/right judge and you need 2 of the 3 to approve the lift.

On February 13 2018 09:41 Jerubaal wrote:How far down do you guys go on the Romanian? I'm doing 4x10 so the weight isn't very heavy. I can pretty much touch my toes with that amount of weight. Does that mean I should increase the weight or just stop a few inches below my knees? Or just keep going down as far as I can?

Go as low as you can without the bar traveling forward, your back rounding, or your knee angle changing.

had surgery done for a herniated disc last year. recovered abit with some swimming etc but stopped when i went back to work after 6 months sick time at home. also my left knee makes strange noises after an accident on a stones concert but meh.

Now im slowly trying to get back in shape again. what i do:very light squats ,adding a rep each time and when get to 10 add 2.5kgbench & ohpaustralian pullups instead of bb rowsvery light "half deadlifts" starting from my bench with more reps to get my body used to it again

+some planks, curls,assisted dips and minor additional stuff. Sounds good to the experts? any recommendations?

Also doing a mix of lazy keto and IF right now , eating 10-40g carbs/day (except weekend drinking night) and 16 - 20h fasts depending on mood & schedule. What confuses me is how keto people talk all the time about how you need days to get into ketosis and how they feel terrible when they eat carbs while IF people talk about a ketosis window evry fast and rarely talk about ill effects after starting to eat whatever. whos right? just a thing that seems weird to me.

Keto and IF employ the same technique and methodology, but the difference in intensity makes for dramatically different experiences. Both use carb limits. IF restricts the timing of carbs to a short window to maximize the amount of time that your body spends at a low insulin level, resulting in a large fat burning window. Keto is trying to do the same thing, but Keto wants a permanent low insulin level. In order to do this, you must get your body to produce ketones, since you will not have glycogen for your brain, and the excess glycogen reserves in your liver must be burned off first.

This accounts for why Keto peeps have such discomfort in the transitions. They are literally changing fuel sources while IF people are still depending on glycogen. They just go to the well less often.

Well, couple more vids for form advice. Haven't posted a bench on before so thoughts there would be cool, also a DL at 300.

Doing a mock competition next Friday, we'll see how it goes. I'm cautiously hoping for 225 on bench, and feeling pretty confident about 315 pull. Squat...has basically been ignored due to cycling. Honestly I'd be "happy" with even a 225 that wouldn't get red lighted. I feel really comfortable with my squat execution at lights weights, say up to about 80-85% of max, but above that I quickly lose confidence and rarely get down to depth.

Only thing I'm scared about is that roomie has the flu right now. Would be REALLY pissed if I get that sometime in the next week. Doing what I can as far as hygiene and not touching the face goes. Fingers crossed.

After that, I'll get cutting in earnest, then get ready to see where I can go from there.

On February 24 2018 16:28 decafchicken wrote:Dude quit being so dainty. That 300 deadlift was nothing, hit it with some venom and go smash 325-335 at the meet.

Well, from what I've heard you don't want to go too nuts before you actually go for it, so I just worked up to a relaxed single at a weight about 25lbs heavier than I've done. You'll see something a little more aggressive from next Friday.

(Was also a little tentative because I tweaked my lat or something a few weeks ago, could really feel it at near the beginning of wide pull ups and some row variations. kind of in the middle, upper lat. I think it's gone now, but I hadn't touched back stuff in a few weeks).

A week out is plenty of time to taper. Hit every lift for the next week like it's a competition lift/warm up. Confidence, power, and precision. Start doing your mental reps for the competition in your head from start to finish. By the time you compete you should be on auto pilot and have already made every rep in your head. Then all that's left is to go out there, have some fun, and crush some heavy lifts.

On February 25 2018 09:08 Jerubaal wrote:How's lifting with socks on a hardwood surface?

Better than the current shoe situation. I literally don't think there is much of a difference in the slippage between the two, and obviously pulling with less crap in-between me and the floor is nice.

When we actually go for it, I'll probably just break the rules and go barefoot for that...but given what I'm used to with the shoes I have it didn't feel bad.

Serious question though...WTF is up with 1RM calculators. They all seem to use variations of the same basic forumla. Which seems fine. Until they give percentages.

In other words, if you do a set of 5 at 185, you get an estimated 1RM of 208 on most calculators. Cool. I can dig it. Until, that is, you look at the estimated reps at percentage of 1RM. Go look across to 5 reps, and I see about 85% of max or so. Even if I use 87%, the highest I've seen, what do I get? 180lbs. Or more commonly 175 if you use 85%.

Same thing happens with triples or doubles.

Obviously there is an inconsistency here, but I don't know where it's coming from...but they clearly cannot be derived from the same formula.